March 2011

March 31, 2011

(Beautiful Kitschy Kitchen recipe box made by Design Team member Fabienne)Hi Friends, just a friendly reminder that we'll be hosting our first Melissa Frances Recipe Exchange beginning tomorrow! A little birdie told me that there may be a prize involved as well....stay tuned (wink!).

We love our Kitschy Kitchen Collection and how stylishly functional it is for organizing recipes, coupons and other food-related crafting. We are really excited to share that on Friday, in keeping with our focus on food related crafting, we will be hosting our first ever Recipe exchange here on the Melissa France blog. So, you have a few days to cook up your favorite recipes, take a few photos and post them (along with the recipes) on your personal blog. Then, on Friday, come back here and follow the directions to link your recipe related blog post with our blog. Fun, eh?

March 22, 2011

Here's a message from Melissa, which she shared on facebook yesterday:

Good news and bad! Good news is I do not have cancer! The biopsy showed there were abnormal cells that would eventually become cancer but they got it out before that nasty thing could take me over again! Bad new huge fluid build up need to be aspirated tomorrow! But I am getting in the car and going home after that!

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Melissa is SO happy to be heading back home. She still has a way to go in her recovery, but being based at home is a welcome milestone in her journey! Please join us in Congratulating her ☺

(By the way, if you are not friends with Melissa on facebook yet, we invite you to look her up and become a fan!)

This week we are continuing to show projects and samples from our Kitschy Kitchen Collection. At the CHA Winter trade show in January, we added 12 of the papers from this Collection to our Open Stock. So you will still have the option to purchase the papers in 6x6 or 12x12 pads, but you can now also purchase the designs by the sheet.

March 18, 2011

Here is a super cute table topper idea from design team member Johanna. This would be super adorable for a tea party, birthday party or even set out as a part of a display on a fireplace mantle or table!

We love this fun and shabby Kitschy Kitchen greeting card by design team member Evgenia.

Did you know that Melissa Frances makes 6x6 paper pads for each of her paper collections? Our 6x6 pads feature the same designs as our 12x12 papers, only scaled down which makes them tailor-made for card makers. This card was made from the 6x6 Kitschy Kitchen pad.

March 14, 2011

Happy Monday everyone! We love our friends at Bazzill cardstock, so when we heard that they are combining efforts to help a 10 year old boy from Surprise, Arizona reach his goal of sending 180,000 cards overseas to deployed US soldiers, we wanted to share the details with you.

If you have time to make cards, or if you have some already made, please consider sending them into this card drive.

As an added enticement, for every 5 cards you send in, you will receive one entry into a drawing which has some great prizes. (One of the prizes is 2 tickets to Creative Escape - how fun!)